POLITICS

Iran named in Facebook fight to stop spread of fake news
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook has for the first time named a country other than Russia that has been using fake accounts to manipulate global politics: Iran.
The social network said it...

Man kills mother and sister in France knife attack as Islamic State claims responsibility
French police secure a street after a man killed two persons and injured an other in a knife attack in Trappes, near Paris, according to French...

Record 'bull market' despite Trump woes
Wall St is celebrating its longest S&P bull-market run
The US dollar continued its slide on Wednesday morning as political pressure on President Donald Trump increased, and the euro hit a two-week high as investors...

Trump: Market would crash if I was impeached
The president said Americans would see economic ‘numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse’.
Donald Trump (Tyler Evert/AP)
Donald Trump has said he believes the economy would tank if he were to be impeached.
The...

Trump denies wrongdoing and accuses lawyer of ‘making up stories’
The US president accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of ‘making up stories’ to get a ‘great deal’ from prosecutors.
Donald Trump (Tyler Evert/AP)
US President Donald Trump has dug in to...

Keeley Hawes reveals she demanded equal pay with male co-star for BBC drama
Bodyguard features Hawes as a fictional home secretary dealing with a terrorist attack.
Keeley Hawes has revealed she demanded to be paid the same as her male co-star...

Removal of hundreds of fake Facebook account 'tip of the iceberg'
MP Damian Collins
Facebook's removal of hundreds of fake pages, groups and accounts which targeted UK politics is "the tip of the iceberg", according to the chairman of the parliamentary...

Women's forum invites female politicians from around world
Mary Beard (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Female politicians from all over the world are to be invited to Ireland for a parliamentary women's caucus next month.
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will take...